Danbury Girls Form Temperance Society To Influence Men
Nearly five hundred Danbury young women join the St. Peter’s Ladies Temperance Society after a speech by Rev. Henry J. Lynch. Members pledge total abstinence from alcohol for male friends and plan organized efforts to sway local voters and peers in the temperance cause.
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Danbury
Conn
St. Peter's Ladies Temperance Society
Henry J. Lynch
Children of Mary
St. Peter's
Father Lynch
Lcense
Est
Nquor
Connecticuis
Maggie Drumm
Mary Higgins
Annie Fox
Josie McNamara
Jim
Jassie
Annie Foxformation
Lizzie
Jack
Fred
Women's Christian Temperance Union
New Sea Collision Shield Tests Magnetic Compass
A new device aims to prevent ship collisions by emitting an electro magnetic force from a vessel. In a recent test the force influenced a chemically prepared compass stationed about six miles away, making it ring with a sudden bell sound.
Between Dream Waltzes and a World of Vengeance
A collage of romantic passages and dramatic scoffing blends with crime fiction from Basil Underdonk and Mortimer Dusenberry. Irene McGilcuddy vows fidelity to Mortimer as Basil plots revenge, then witnesses a trolley tragedy and a plotted widow’s fate. The New York World frames a melodramatic tale of love, betrayal, and murder.
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Basil
Mortimer Dusenberry
Irene McGilcuddy
Basil Underdonk
Irene
Halsey Street
Brooklyn
City of Homes
Hal Basil
Dusenberry
Irene Dusenberry
Dust Thou Shalt Return in Frivolous Rhetoric
A Bellwether exchange shows Rev Wayback chiding Youth in Fenceburg over wasted time while Cully McSwatt vows to pursue dust. Prohibition groups cite sixty thousand drunkards dying yearly, while the League notes many share the same fate without enjoyment.
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Wayback
Fenceburg
Cully McSwatt
Green-Room Thrift and Manager Exchange in Comic Row
In a stagehouse quip a manager asks to inspect a tall prop while a chorus figure jokes about pay. Willie asks about alimony and Pa bitterly explains it means all the money a man can scrape together and more, too.
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Coryphee
Willie
Manipulating Six Pennies Trick and Civic Ads
A tiny coin puzzle shows six pennies arranged as a Roman cross to form two rows. The piece references a deception and then shifts to praise Hostetter’s Stomach Bitters as a universal cure. It closes with a note on Queensland cockatoos signaling, and collective behavior after a hunter shoots one.
Traveling tips and home remedies flood the old periodical
The item bundles multiple advertisements and snippets about health products and oddities. It promotes Syrup of Figs for kidneys and bowels, Parker's Ginger Tonic, Hinder corns, Dr Kline's wart remover, Piso's Cure for Consumption, Doc's Cough Balsam, Hanson’s Magic Corn Salve, plus light, chatty notes about Boise City police on bicycles and social quips.
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California Fig Syrup Co
Three Flowers and Garden Advice Amid Short Fragments
An experienced florist favors four plant species for gardens: hardy roses lilies rhododendrons and clematis with lilies as top in labor cost efficiency. The text also mentions a catarrh cure from a Druggist and teething remedies for babies alongside a playful note about a football loving mikado from Janes.
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Needham, Mass
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Minnie
J. A. Johnson
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Mikado
Janes
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Beeman Chemical
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Tuman
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H. T. Clark Drug CO
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